Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Nevada man who started out to
look for grizzly bear found him in
time for dinner-the bears dinner
Jndge.
The bodies of abou. SIX handred
Chinese are about to be disinterred at
San Francisco and shipped to China by
steamer for final interment
"A rich New York dry-goods mer.
chants son, who was entirely bald, has
had the hair from Newfoundland dogs
leg transplanted to his own head and
it Is growing nicely.
Hot water from artesian wells is
| one of the looked-for boons 1t is
thought reasonable to suppose that hot
water can be obtained almost any where
if wells are bored deep enough, the fea-
sibility of this source of supply being
already largely demonstrated by the
success Of the great artesian well pro-
| ject at Pesth.
Bill Johnson, a stage robber, now
languishing in an Idaho Jail, speaks
despondently of the business as fol-
lows: "Stage after stage has been held
| up without getting nickel, and 1t
seems as though all the money in the
country was in the hands Of the bank
ers, the railroad managers or the ex-
press companies.
"A Tennessee newspaper contains
the following: ''We are rejoiced to
know that j. G. Rackhelt, that prince
of gentlemen and czar of culture, has
secured the contract for building a
plank sidewalk in front Of the Gibbons
block. He is gentleman of the old
school and knows good piece Of plank
when he sees it. ."-Philadelphta Press.
Two skeletons dug up several
months ago in a cave near Orneau, in
Belgium, appear to belong to the oldest
race of which any record exists. These
prehistoric individuals were contem-
porary with the mammoth, and in
habited the country before the great
ice age. They were short and thick
set, with broad shoulders. supportinga a
long and narrow head, with an ex-
tremely low forehead.
Three weeks ago j. F. Zurich. Of
Red Bank, NfJ., placed basket of
eggs on his stove extension. He had
no occasion to use any of them, and in
advertently kept his stove at an even
heat both night and day. The room
served as o shop and living room.
Yesterday he was surprised at a ''peep"
from his egg basket. He found twelve
as pretty little chicks as were ever
Matched by an old hen.
1t has been demonstrated again and
again that almost one-haH the units
of heat in given quantity of coal are
wasted in one way and another as it is
now used, owing partly to the impossi-
bility Of gauging the supply of heat by
the requirements of the moment, but
more to imperfect combustion. 1t is
capable of scientific proof, too, that
nearly all this waste can be avoided by
converting the coal into gas before US
ing it as heat supply.-Prooideace
| Journal.
The International Institute of Sta
tistics has just had convention in
Rome, and one of the most interesting
| points it established is the fact that the
death rate in Europe has been very
much reduced during the past century.
People are living longer and are more
healthy than they were one hundred
years ago, and this happy result is at
tributed to the progress of medical
science, and especially to the energetic
sanitary measures that have been
adopted everywhere. Budget.
An American writer who is smart
at figures has estimated that the peo-
pie of the United States could feed
themselves upon a good mixed diet,
including meats, tea and coffee at
cost of about twenty-four cents per day
for each person. Vegetarians have
demonstrated the possibility of main
tanning health upon sixpence or twelve
cents worth OF food per day. At the
other extreme we find many fashion
able hotels charging from five to ten
dollars per day for three meals and .
bed. Foote's Health Monthly.
The living skeleton and we'll
known museum specimen, lately de-
ceased at the age of thirty-fve years. was
case Of recognized disease known as
progressive muscular atrophy or vast
ing. 1t is generally caused by unusual
muscular exertion or exposure to cold
and wet, but in this particular case it
was brought on by excessive swimming
at the age of twelve. The patients
health, appetite and mental faculties
remained unimpaired long after the
great bulk of the muscles had wasted
away.-Foote's Health Monthly.
Says man who is himself great
smoker: What can men be thinking
Of who light cigars or cigarettes, not
only on the elevated stations, but some
times even before they get off the carss
They surely forget that they are max.
ing themselves offensive to any ladies
that may be present, not to speak OF
men. Such lack of consideration on
the part Of presumably well-bred
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